October 5th is the Most Popular Birthday! The Birthday Paradox Explained. Studies by the National Center for Health and Statistics, and Anybirthday.com both conclude the most common birthday in North America is on October 5th. The reason? Hint: New Yearâs Eve.
thorâ¢ough. 1. executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search. 2. complete; perfect; utter: thorough enjoyment. 3. extremely attentive to accuracy and detail; painstaking: a thorough worker. 4. having full command or mastery of an art, talent, etc. 5. extending or passing through.
To clean is the general word with no implication of method or means: to clean windows, a kitchen, streets. Cleanse is especially used of thorough cleaning by chemical or other technical process; figuratively it applies to moral or spiritual purification: to cleanse parts of machinery; to cleanse one's soul of guilt.